Not long now

Exactly three weeks today, Chris and I travel to South America...

If that all sounds a little sketchy, it's because our plans are not in fact much more detailed than that. We have return flights to Argentina (outward journey 1st September, inward, 31st October). We have the first 4 nights accommodation booked in Buenos Aires, and a volunteer placement at Picaflor House, Peru (organised for 2 weeks at the beginning of October). Hotel in Cusco. We have key sights and sites in mind, and plans to travel through Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia and Peru, but the rest is 'when and where the fancy takes us'. We hope that this will give us the freedom to explore, to experience the real South America. Not exactly Magellan, but as intrepid as you can be at 50 odd, one of us with a dodgy back and the other with a "manky mouth".Read more